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While getting the rest of the Dulcitius in order, here is something else to look at! Some time ago I wrote a guest post for the indomitable Nadine Muller for her new series on 'my first time in academia'. It is the story of a young researcher's first conference adventure, wherein she spent several hours …

Thesis progress: THE END IS IN SIGHT. So in the meantime, I am here to bring you something totally unrelated to it! Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim was a Benedictine nun at Gandersheim, a very posh convent in Germany, and a writer of plays that were probably never performed. She would be this formidable lady here. Her …

I know it's been quiet--I'm meant to have my thesis draft done by the end of next week, and I think I can make it! But it means I've been too exhausted to also tell cool historical stories. Also--here is my shameless plug--I'm trying to raise the money to go to an intensive Welsh course …

'When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die' -Cersei Lannister, and everyone ever who has read A Song of Ice and Fire Recently, while reading a lot of things about dynastic inheritance law in medieval Wales and mentally bemoaning how I'm still not caught up on Game of Thrones (I am …

Here is a small collection of CFPs that have come in while I type, type, type away. I am pleased to report that housemate's Magic Writing Mittens seem to be doing the trick. IMC Leeds 2013 Late Call for Papers 33 sessions here, each with its own deadline, so have a last-minute look. Precedent and …

Some days, I stare at my thesis like I have never seen it before. This is not a post about exciting medieval things--though I could talk a lot about beards at the moment, or giants, or how Peredur just rides around being kind of dim. This is the part where I moan about the ultimate …

A few very interesting things today! Some CFPs, and some cool things you can still make it to as a spectator. Calls for Papers: SAMLA 2013 panel: 'Other Worlds: Encounters, Clashes, Dreams, Games, and Fantasies in Medieval Literature' Dates: 8-10 Nov 2013 Deadline: 15 May 2013 *There are a lot of other CFPs for the …